Dr. David Anthony (Tony) Forrester, a professor in the Master of Science in Nursing program and the PhD in Urban Systems at UMDNJ-School of Nursing, was honored as one of 2008's top nurses by the New Jersey League for Nursing. He is also a clinical professor at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a professor-in-residence and interdisciplinary health research consultant at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
The University sponsored its first “UMDNJ Day at the Capitol” on October 23 at the State House Annex, featuring exhibits providing information about UMDNJ's eight schools. Also included were exhibits for The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Public Health Research Institute at the International Center for Public Health at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS). Participants learned about the NJMS Cardiology Program's use of STAT-MI, which employs wireless handheld technologies for rapid diagnosis and treatment of heart attacks.
Legislators and state employees met UMDNJ faculty, staff and students at a reception. Throughout the day, faculty and students learned about the legislative process by witnessing hearings and a Senate voting session. Additionally, legislators and state employees were offered glucose screenings by UMDNJ-University Hospital and blood pressure and body mass index screenings by UMDNJ-School of Nursing, which also provided tours of its Mobile Health Unit.
Young visitors to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City experienced what it might be like to be a doctor or a dentist for a day, when three of UMDNJ's schools hosted an interactive career day for children and teens on October 15.
At booths manned by UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School students, children learned the proper way to brush and floss and received free toothbrushes. At the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School booths, the youngsters held preserved human brains and learned how to check a person's reflexes. They listened to a beating heart through a stethoscope at the UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine booths.
Counselors were on hand to steer students toward high school courses that would prepare them for a career in medicine or dentistry. The event was one of many outreach programs sponsored by UMDNJ to promote preventive health care and introduce young people to medical and dental professions.
The UMDNJ-George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences at Newark held an opening reception on October 23 in its Special Collections section for “Art of the Anatomist,” an exhibit honoring the donor, Dr. George Kozam, a retired professor of anatomy at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS). Fifty faculty, students and staff participated in the festivities.
Pictured are Dr. Kozam (right) and Dr. Shamshad Gilani, professor, Department of Radiology at NJMS. The exhibit features Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1555), 150 Years of Gray's Anatomy, and a collection of Spencer microscopes dating from the late 19th century. The exhibit will be on display through December 19. For more information, contact Bob Vietrogoski at 2-7830 or vietrora@umdnj.edu.
